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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






2. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






3. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






4. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






5. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






6. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






7. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






8. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






9. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






10. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






11. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






12. Reserve






13. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






14. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






15. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






16. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






17. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






18. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






19. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






20. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






21. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






22. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






23. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






24. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






25. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






26. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






27. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






28. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






29. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






30. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






31. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






32. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






33. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






34. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






35. A component of work performed during the course of a project






36. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






37. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






38. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






39. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






40. Subdivision of a phase






41. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






42. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






43. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






44. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






45. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






46. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






47. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






48. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






49. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






50. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response